Early Music History
Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century.

Iain Fenlon (Edited by)

9780521104296, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2009

416 pages
22.9 x 2.4 x 15.2 cm, 0.61 kg

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference to studies pursuing interdisciplinary approaches and to those developing novel methodological ideas. The scope is exceptionally broad and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume two include: The Chirk Castle partbooks; Isabella d'Este and Lorenzo da Pavi, 'master instrument maker'; and Johannes de Garlandia on organum in speciali.

1. Experimental polyphony, 'according to the…Latins', in late Byzantine psalmody Dimitri Conomos
2. The Chirk Castle partbooks Peter Le Huray
3. Modal representation in polyphonic offertories Harold S. Powers
4. Isabella d'Este and Lorenzo da Pavia, 'master instrument-maker' William F. Prizer
5. Johannes de Garlandia on organum in speciali Edward H. Roesner
6. The compilation and ownership of the 'St Emmeram' codex Ian Rumbold
7. The compilation of Trent 87 and 92 Peter Wright
8. New sources of English thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphony Peter M. Lefferts and Margaret Bent
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Subject Areas: Music [AV]